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FYI, it’s Chas Jizzhome.

Seems like you’re the one using it to push politics. The post you’re quoting is merely “pushing” some of the great work Liam has done in the local community.

So human rights is leftist and or political. Cool cool. Seriously, GTFO with that noise.

Chaz

For the remainder of the off-season: Stole this idea from someone else, but sign someone like Alex Reyes, Ken Giles, Trevor Rosenthal, etc (or two of these guys) to a one year deal and they can compete for the closer job with in-house guys. Adam Duvall Minor league deals to SP for depth That's about it for me.

LGBTQ right are leftist politics?

Misjudged the market once again

Quality 4th OF and SP depth are my priorities. I want a 2B addition but I just don’t see it happening sadly.

I’m just happy to see he has use of both hands

For the record, this gives the Sox some fall back space at 2B. -You can see if Sosa is ready -You can see if Romy is ready -You can see if 2022 was injury related to Leury, or if he really is toast. -If all of those other things fail, you have a safety net now. I wish we would do the same in RF. It is just smart organizational work.

I mean, he played 1 year there. So sure.

haha, that reminds me of the time my wife and I saw the Tom Hanks movie "Castaway" in the theater. After the movie, she asked me, "Do you think you could have survived on that island?" My response...."honey, I wouldn't have made it outta that plane."

Do you have a problem with pro runners doing weight lifting? Afterall its not running so its just a waste of time right?

Hanser Alberto kind of stinks and they don't really even need him in Charlotte

I dont know if he misjudged it this year. Tough to pull off a trade when your most sought after trade chip just got put on the shelf indefinitely on medical leave. The only thing they can do now is move Giolito and that will still be robbing Peter to pay Paul. Cant really move Crochet with Hendriks status up in the air. Colas and Montgomery are or should be untouchable. Obviously so is Robert and Jimenez. If you take all those guys off the table, theres not much that we have that other people want.

Not a bad depth guy to have. But if he's our regular 2B, we're gonna be in trouble.

why

This is a good signing. Surprised he signed a NRI. Makes you realize how FUCKING ASSININE the Leury contract is.

Unless they decide not to go with their rookies due to Spring Training failures, he is a backup who is at Charlotte through April until someone in the infield gets hurt. Leury is on a big league contract, he won't be cut to start the year for a guy who has had a similar career so far. If and when someone gets hurt, he is now the first replacement in the organization. It will be interesting to see how many of these guys opt out on May 1. They now have several guys who can do so, and if several of them do so before someone gets hurt in May or June they could be seriously scrambling to find warm bodies.

MLBTR said it is a NRI to spring training, so MiLB deal it is.

Nobody pushed any politics other than yourself. There’s no denying that. Liam is a person that helps people.

Completely agree. Trading away young talent is not something that the White Sox do well anyway.

No, I don't think it's a good idea for the White Sox to be giving up the little talent they have for a guy like this. My preference all offseason has been "assume that the White Sox have a low chance to make the playoffs this year, fill holes as practical, but play the long game overall - don't add long term payroll (they did) and don't trade away the guys they have control over (they have not yet done so).

Could this be end of Leury Garcia?? Just pondering out loud.

MODOK is

I might have gotten out initially but then have done something stupid like go back for my carry on.

That movie made me make sure I could light a fire. I feel like I wouldn't have had as much problem as him with the coconuts though. The rope making was impressive, I'll give him that.

They can, the issue is they don't have the will to do so thanks to ownership.

That's a surprising move with the Twins having all those lefties.

There's very little reason for the Marlins to want Vaughn in a deal like this. Both Andrew Vaughn and Marlins Player of Interesting Name have 4 years of control remaining. They'd be going from a guy they will probably have to actually trade in a couple years to a guy they'd probably have to actually trade in a couple years. The secondary pieces would have to be worth more than Vaughn himself for this reason; Colson + Vaughn probably gets serious consideration, but some other team could potentially beat that if they had 2 prospects with a full 6 years of control.

The Coca Colas Bear isn't amused.

I believe this is also the Corlas guy, so the math checks out.

I had to look up whether jazz was a nickname for chaz after all this but no, real name is Jasrado

I don't know how it will translate to baseball, but it looks like a pretty intense exercise to me.

I think this deal is a home run for the Twins. But there is plenty here for them to worry about. Two major market teams backed out of deals, one of which being the free spending Mets who have spent without 2nd thought. For Cohen to cut his offer in half after the Giants debacle, there is clearly very bad stuff in the physical. If Correa has a brutal injury in the first half of the deal, this couple be a franchise crippling signing for the Twins. That said, without knowing exactly what the concern is beyond it being related to the 2014 plate surgically installed in his leg, I would be overjoyed if the Sox made this signing. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a good bit of downside risk, and this is coming from someone who has said multiple times I don’t expect Correa to become a pumpkin anytime soon.

As an aside, The animated MODOK show on Hulu was actually hilarious if you like Teen Titans Go type spoofs

From a trade perspective, the problem with this player whatever his name happens to be is that he has 4 full years of control remaining including a pre-arbitration year. Because of this, the Marlins have zero pressure to move him the next two years unless they get a super strong offer that makes them substantially better long term. I believe this is an example of what Bmags has been calling “paying for control” - the White Sox would literally have to empty their system for the guy because he’s under control for so long. We actually have experience with this on the other side as the Nats and Cubs paid serious prices for control on Eaton and Quintana. Assuming Colas is off limits, basically you need a package of just about everyone else the Sox can afford to move. If they had two top 50 prospects I would say that’s a starting point but they don’t, so it’s clearly Colson as the headliner and then 2 or 3 other serious pieces from the Sox’s top 10, and even then the Marlins might well just say no.

ouch I am hurt. I have always said I would love to upgrade 2B with a legit solution. Just completely opposed to an Andrus/Harrison or another re-tread guy when we clearly have monetary constraints and a few young guys who can fill in like just as well as those retreads.

Unfortunately the “answer” to 2B is either already on the 40 man, or won’t be on the roster until the team hits Arizona in a month+.

Twins can do 200 mil contract, yet Sox can’t even do a 80 mil one.

Didn't the Mets sell $1M in tickets the day Correa's signing came out? It's the ultimate profit making scheme.

Booo, this really isn't the thread for posts like this.

Great let's use this as an excuse to push leftist politics.

It makes them better than they were yesterday. Does it make them better than they were last year? This is clearly a treading water move, they literally brought back a guy that they had last year. He might be slightly better or healthier, but not vastly so. Outside of that, as of now they've lost Sanchez, Bundy, and Archer who were at least tolerable contributors. They have brought in Gallo and Vazquez, which probably offsets those losses, but does that make them better? If Gallo turns back into an all star yes, but otherwise that's at best a tiny upgrade. They have brought up a couple of kids, but not a ton of them and not obviously guys who are franchise changing. Their bullpen should be better with a couple kids there, but that doesn't make up the ground against Cleveland. So what are they counting on? They need guys who are there to stay healthier and perform better, including guys like in their starting rotation who have been hurt recently and regularly, and guys like their CF, who has all the talent in the world but keeps only playing half a season. That...sounds pretty familiar.

You're counting 1 WAR as about $5 million? I found Fangraphs showing last year that teams paid $8.5 million/WAR on the Free Agent market. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/what-are-teams-paying-per-war-in-free-agency/ At that level he would have to average 3.92 WAR. I think there's also a very good chance that number will look higher this year thanks to the new CBA, Disney money, and Mr. Cohen, leaving it at <3.9 WAR he needs to average to have this deal "break even" based on what teams are spending.

Both the Mets and Twins were willing to guarantee 6 years. Usually with the free agent whales who arent pushing 40, any production the last couple of years is gravy if you have any chance of landing them. So I'm thinking Correa probably looks like he has 3 or 4 more productive years left before the arthritis becomes a problem.

My apologies, you are correct. I follow MLB.com's international rankings and they have ATL's player Luis Guanipa ranked 34th, outside of the 33. At the age of 17, so clearly not signed at 16 meaning, no deal beforehand was in place.

Congrats. Something about "I was right" bragging posts doesn't sit particularly well with me given the topic. This is literally a "No, no one could have predicted or planned for this" setup.

As long as JR owned the club if TLR was healthy, he'd be the manager.